We reveal the relationship between a Petrov–Galerkin method and a spectral collocation method at the Chebyshev points of the second kind (±1 and zeros of Uk) for the two-point boundary value problem. Derivative superconvergence points are identified as the Chebyshev points of the first kind (Zeros of Tk). Super-geometric convergent rate is established for a special class of solutions.

In this work, we first reformulate the unsteady flow of gas through a porous medium problem in [0,+∞) to a problem in [-1,1] by variable transformation μ = (x-s)/(x+s), and using spectral collocation method based on Chebyshev polynomials to approximate the resulting problem. The comparison of the results obtained by this method with results obtained by other methods shows that this method provi...

Pseudospectral methods are investigated for singularly perturbed boundary value problems for ordinary diierential equations which possess boundary layers. It is well known that if the boundary layer is very small then a very large number of spectral collocation points is required to obtain accurate solutions. We introduce here a new eeective procedure, based on coordinate stretching and the Che...

We introduce a multiple interval Chebyshev-Gauss-Lobatto spectral collocation method for the initial value problems of the nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODES). This method is easy to implement and possesses the high order accuracy. In addition, it is very stable and suitable for long time calculations. We also obtain the hp-version bound on the numerical error of the multiple inter...

We study a new method in reducing the roundo error in computing derivatives using Chebyshev collocation methods. By using a grid mapping derived by Koslo and Tal-Ezer, and the proper choice of the parameter , the roundo error of the k-th derivative can be reduced from O(N2k) to O((N jln j)k), where is the machine precision and N is the number of collocation points. This drastic reduction of rou...

We study a new method in reducing the roundo error in computing derivatives using Chebyshev collocation methods. By using a grid mapping derived by Koslo and Tal-Ezer, and the proper choice of the parameter , the roundo error of the k-th derivative can be reduced from O(N) to O((N jln j)k), where is the machine precision and N is the number of collocation points. This drastic reduction of round...

The problem of the boundary layer flow of an incompressible viscous fluid over a non-linear stretching sheet is considered. A spectral collocation method is performed in order to find an analytical solution of the governing nonlinear differential equations. The obtained results are finally compared through the illustrative graphs and tables with the exact solution and some well-known results ob...

In this paper, a Chebyshev–Legendre spectral viscosity (CLSV) method is developed for nonlinear conservation laws with initial and boundary conditions. The boundary conditions are dealt with by a penalty method. The viscosity is put only on the high modes, so accuracy may be recovered by postprocessing the CLSV approximation. It is proved that the bounded solution of the CLSV method converges t...

Abstract We consider solitary-wave solutions of the generalized Burger’s-Fisher equation ∂Ψ ∂t + αΨ δ ∂Ψ ∂x − ∂ 2Ψ ∂x2 = βΨ(1 − Ψδ). In this paper, we present a new method for solving of the generalized Burger’s-Fisher equation by using the collocation formula for calculating spectral differentiation matrix for Chebyshev-Gauss-Lobatto point. To reduce round-off error in spectral collocation met...